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Indeed, you're right.

Fromthe mouth of CockraochDB's CTO: ‶So if we were starting at this point in time, I would take a hard look at Rust, and I imagine that we would pick it instead of C++.″

I'd say that life at startups paying peanuts and expecting rockstars is considered slavery, not startup life in general.

> However, modern HN just feels so deeply cynical, angry, and negative with much less of the entrepreneurial tech optimism of the older posts Isn't that a direct reflection of the …

> When they say like a family they mean treating each other with kindness, friendship and compassion We have a word for that: politeness.

At the same time, you can't expect Wiki editors to be expert in all cutting-edge domain of knowledge to be able to determine which academics are or aren't notable.

> civilization ought to have collapsed several times over. Which it did, in some ways.

Yeah, it has left the 4chan community and entered the mainstream quite some time ago; e.g. here ( https://old.reddit.com/r/virginvschad/ ), and it even has derivatives now ( https:…

For an overwhelming majority of Zoom users, scaling over 1k users is not a concern.

> Zoom was the very first to let people join meetings without a) signing up; and b) downloading anything E.g. BigBlueButton and Jitsi were doing it for much longer.

That's ~4MB per thousand emails; while I agree it's conceptually wasteful, I doubt it would have any real consequences for anyone.

I agree that these names are kind of meh, but they stand for things that will mostly be chosen on their technical merit, and that you don't have to sell to your friends/mom/gf/brot…

> Any other reasons to go beyond 64 (or 80) bits? Algorithms stability. As precision decreases when magnitude rises, many tricks are used in sci. comp. to scale everything into ran…

Because the academic ML community does not care about shipping product to end users not equipped in nVidia.

Although AVX instructions, those are scalar. The SS pattern at the end is for Scalar Single-precision, so only one lane of the whole SIMD register is used.

Thanks!

> [1] Except empirical Bayes, which is a dark art. As a not-an-expert-in-stats, why would you say that? Is not empirical Bayes basically the same thing, but with priors stemming fr…

> there are some minimum legal hours of seminars you have to attend True, but that's like a few dozens hours over 3+ years. > and classes you have to teach during your phd. Nope. M…

> The RBF kernel nakes any dataset linearly separable, as long as the bandwidth is small enough That's very interesting, would you happen to have the paper proving that somewhere?

BeamVM is much worse than the JVM in the raw computing performances department.

> web-based And that's already not a decent concurrent for org-mode. Not that I have a grudge against web tech, but no self-hosting of my most personal data and no offline abilitie…

> 80-bit precision is actively harmful How comes? Unexpected clipping when converting back and forth to 64bits?

If I understand correctly: > we still make a small profit on low oil prices. and > when prices are low everybody expects to rise back to what we're used to again soon, because we'r…

I don't understand what it has to do with reentrancy?

Why would you want to port Phoenix? As long as the underlying VM follow the spec, Phoenix should be oblivious of on which it is running.